Idiots. The movie didn't suffer from its "warlike tone." It suffered because the root of the story is faith... and they gutted any semblance of faith from the movie.
The Narnia books are my favorite. I have read them all through at least 5 times in my life... getting different things each time. I can stomach the first movie, although there are obvious areas where they could have done better. I absolutely hate the second one. There was no life in it... no part of the book remained besides the names of the characters.
I'm looking forward to Dawn Treader and hoping to be positively surprised. If the franchise fails it will be entirely due to Hollywood's blatant attempts to capitalize on the names of the stories while systematically trying to undermine them.
what about the line “in your world you know me by a different name”?
In the book, there was more about the journey to the edge. The lion head becoming Aslan and talking to capian, the ship turning back, the mouse’s little boat, drining the sweet water, Reep leaving the sword behind I don’t remember in the book, oh and what about pulling the mouses tail, we could go on and on.
I bet much of these will be available on the DVD or “editor’s cut.” all in all they were true to the book.